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43) White horse
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Some people are haunted in more ways than one. Old denim jackets, ripped jeans, Stephen King novels, and the occasional beer at the White Horse Lounge have defined urban Indian Kari James's life so far. But when her cousin Debby finds an old family bracelet that once belonged to Kari's mother, it inadvertently calls up both her mother's ghost and a monstrous entity, and her willful ignorance about her past is no longer sustainable. Haunted by visions...
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This collection of short stories shows the adventures and misadventures of the "children" alluded in the title: members of several Native-American tribes of the Canadian Arctic, Alaska and the Pacific Northwest at the turn of the XXth Century, on the backdrop of the Klondike Gold Rush amidst a harsh, unforgiving, Darwinian (red in tooth and claw indeed) Nature. The inevitable clash of civilisations brought by the coming of the gold-seeking "Sunlanders"...
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First mountain man series volume 19
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When a trail drive led by freewheeling adventurer Wiley Courtland is attacked by an Indian war party led by the cunning Red Knife, Preacher, after an act of treachery opens the gates to a massacre, rises from the carnage and begins his war of revenge - alone.
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Purchasing vegetables and leafy greens can become rather pricy. Moreover store-bought greens often contain unhealthy pesticides and chemicals that can be harmful to your health. Foraging for wild plants is a cost effective and healthy alternative. Harvested wild plants are cheaper, and much healthier with a significantly higher nutritional value than what you typically purchase in grocery stores contain. On top of that, harvesting your own plants...
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Though he grew up in the lap of luxury, adventurous aristocrat Philip Steele is driven to do more with his life than dedicate it to hedonistic leisure. Looking for a way to serve his country, he conceals his identity and volunteers for a post in the renowned Royal Northwest Mounted Police.
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To escape her boyfriend, schoolteacher Angela Prescott moves to Minneapolis where she meets an orphaned half-Indian boy who helps her find a job as a waitress, and whom she eventually adopts. When she is beaten by hoods, the boy takes her to a man who lives in a cave in a park and only shows himself at night to hide his disfigured face. He helps her recover and the two fall in love.
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A literary success when it was published in 1902, Captain of the Gray-Horse Troop follows the trials of Captain George Curtis at the Indian Agency at Pine Ridge. In this engrossing novel, Hamlin creates a romantic adventure story about the unjust treatment of the American Indian by cattlemen, drawing on his experiences visiting American Indian reservations.
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Both were men who knew the frontier code and each other. At a time of action, speech, beyond the curtest of monosyllables, was surplusage.' Readers who like Max Brand and Zane Grey will enjoy this western novel from William Macleod Raine. Bucky O'Connor: A Tale of the Unfenced Border is about Lieutenant Bucky O'Connor, who works with Sheriff 'Bear Trap' Collins to catch train robbers.
54) Silver
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Silver volume 1
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Andrew Dare is a werewolf. He's the enforcer for the Roanoke pack, and responsible for capturing or killing any Were intruders in Roanoke's territory. But the lone Were he's tracking doesn't smell or act like anyone he's ever encountered. And when he catches her, it doesn't get any better. She's beautiful, she's crazy, and someone has tortured her by injecting silver into her veins. She says her name is Silver, and that she's lost her wild self and...
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Part road-trip tale, part travelogue of lost and found landscapes, all good-natured natural history, Mariposa Road tracks Bob Pyle's journey across the United States as he races against the calendar in his search for as many of the eight hundred American butterflies as he can find. Like Pyle's classic Chasing Monarchs, Mariposa Road recounts his adventures, high and low, in tracking down butterflies in his own low-tech, individual way.
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56) Deer hunting
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"In North America, deer are the most popular animal to hunt. And deer hunting has been practiced for centuries. From staying safe to protecting nature, readers will learn everything they should know about deer hunting"--
58) Burning Daylight
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Elam Harnish has more money than he would ever need. As he accumulates wealth as a successful entrepreneur in the Alaskan Gold Rush, Harnish must face the challenges of the Yukon Territory. After he makes a fortune, Harnish finds himself still unsatisfied. In efforts to find a new challenge and make more money, Harnish decides to move down to the mainland of America, settling in California. However, after a group of money kings threaten to take his...
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Women of the West (Janette Oke) volume 12
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IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
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The stillness of the mountains, the pines covering the hillsides, the gurgle of the spring... this was her home... The prairie fires that sweep the grazing lands, the coming of white men with their guns and diseases, and the quick slaughter of the vast buffalo herds leave Running Fawn's Blackfoot tribe with little choice but to take up residence on the assigned Reserve. All her life, Running Fawn has known only contentment, but now what will become...
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